Skylark Libretto

Author : Ricciardi / Ames / Holmes / Nugent
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312283300
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skylark Libretto written by Ricciardi / Ames / Holmes / Nugent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elizabethan England, young Nick Atwood runs away from home to join the Admiral's Men, a traveling theatre troupe.

Author : Philip Furia
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466819235
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skylark written by Philip Furia and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skylark is the story of the tormented but glorious life and career of Johnny Mercer, and the first biography of this enormously popular and influential lyricist. Raised in Savannah, Mercer brought a quintessentially southern style to both his life in New York and to his lyrics, which often evoked the landscapes and mood of his youth ("Moon River", "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening"). Mercer also absorbed the music of southern blacks--the lullabies his nurse sang to him as a baby and the spirituals that poured out of Savannah's churches-and that cool smooth lyrical style informed some of his greatest songs, such as "That Old Black Magic". Part of a golden guild whose members included Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Mercer took Hollywood by storm in the midst of the Great Depression. Putting words to some of the most famous tunes of the time, he wrote one hit after another, from "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" to "Jeepers Creepers" and "Hooray for Hollywood." But it was also in Hollywood that Mercer's dark underside emerged. Sober, he was a kind, generous and at times even noble southern gentleman; when he drank, Mercer tore into friends and strangers alike with vicious abuse. Mercer's wife Ginger, whom he'd bested Bing Crosby to win, suffered the cruelest attacks; Mercer would even improvise cutting lyrics about her at parties. During World War II, Mercer served as Americas's troubadour, turning out such uplifting songs as "My Shining Hour" and "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive." He also helped create Capitol Records, the first major West Coast recording company, where he discovered many talented singers, including Peggy Lee and Nat King Cole. During this period, he also began an intense affair with Judy Garland, which rekindled time and again for the rest of their lives. Although they never found happiness together, Garland became Mercer's muse and inspired some of his most sensuous and heartbreaking lyrics: "Blues in the Night," "One for My Baby," and "Come Rain or Come Shine." Mercer amassed a catalog of over a thousand songs and during some years had a song in the Top Ten every week of the year--the songwriting equivalent of Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak--but was plagued by a sense of failure and bitterness over the big Broadway hit that seemed forever out of reach. Based on scores of interviews with friends, family and colleagues, and drawing extensively on Johnny Mercer's letters, papers and his unpublished autobiography, Skylark is an important book about one of the great and dramatic characters in 20th century popular music.

Author : David H. Albert
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0865714010
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And the Skylark Sings with Me written by David H. Albert and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author tells the story of how he and his partner Ellen followed their daughter's interests in designing a home school program and used the resources within their community to fill the gaps in their knowledge areas.

Author : Ricciardi / Nugent
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312354526
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wrong Brothers (Libretto) written by Ricciardi / Nugent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those two old pilots just can't keep their plane in the air! After crashing in Horseshoe, Iowa - at the wrong air show - they become instant celebrities. Soon, they are being hounded for their opinion on everything in this satire on the Cult of Celebrity.

Author : Ricciardi / Nugent
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 131203341X
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Princess Blonde (Libretto) written by Ricciardi / Nugent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the fairy tale Riquet With the Tuft, by Charles Perrault

Author : Ricciardi / Nugent
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312189932
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadway Angels (Libretto) PB written by Ricciardi / Nugent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of cloistered Dominican nuns are evicted by a greedy Cardinal. They pray to St Michael the Archangel for help - a request, he forwards to God, who answers the prayer with lottery tickets, falling like manna from Heaven. The only catch: the nuns buy an abandoned Broadway theatre and move in.Michael and Gabriel doubt the wisdom in answering a prayer by falling lottery tickets. As punishment, they are turned into mere mortals.And the nuns are about to encounter obstacles that might require angels to overcome.

Author : Ricciardi / Nugent
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312543833
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magnificent Confession Libretto written by Ricciardi / Nugent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ricciardi / Nugent
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304856062
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Box of Robbers (Libretto) written by Ricciardi / Nugent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the tale by L. Frank Baum. A young girl opens a mysterious old trunk. Out leaps three robbers, who are the closest of friends. Now, she must trick these three robbers into getting back into the trunk. And perhaps, they may all learn something about humanity along the way.

Author : Ricciardi / Nugent
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312440775
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Feast For the Palette Libretto written by Ricciardi / Nugent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-16 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1954. A group gets together for their annual pageant on Leonardo da Vinci.

Author : Ricciardi / Nugent
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312959533
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Break a Leg: The Musical (Libretto) written by Ricciardi / Nugent and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: